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Over the weekend Sean Kelly had a swap meet at his store, and I had a couple of killer deals go down. Killer for me, anyway. I traded off a pile of NES commons for an X-box... that might have been the coolest deal for me. Haven't really played much X-box... I also traded some commons for four Super Famicom games. I have a Super Famicom somewhere, but never had any native games to see if they work. I'd tell you what the titles are, but only two are in English: Flying Hero, and Acrobat Mission. I also traded for Nester's Funky Bowling for Virtual Boy (I'm a sucker for any video game bowling), SNES R-Type, and a '77 Star Wars electronic LED game. Thrifting has been pretty light, but here are a few buck specials: NES Win, Lose or Draw (because I love Alan Thicke, I guess...) SMB & Duck Hunt (saving up for my next X-box) SNES Super Mario World Samurai Shodown GP-1 PartII Romance of the Three Kingdoms II Also got a new 30 CD set of old time radio for $2.50, but I doubt anyone cares too much about that.

I shoot and edit video for a living, and I have the DK & Pac-Man stuff on a couple different sound effects collections. It's that way for all the reasons that you've said. I'd also add that if the sounds were taken from a later game, there would be rights issues as either Nintendo or Sony would be involved. Sure those sounds are technically copyrighted, but they're sort of grandfathered in. There's another track that gets used a lot of Galaga in play.

Big haul for me - and electrnoics were all half off at one of my favorite thrifts! PSX - $1 ea. Tobal No. 1 Tekken 2 Tekken 3 N64 - $1.25 ea. Shadows of the Empire Mission Impossible Extreme G2 Pokemon Puzzle League Star Wars: Rogue Squadron NFL Quarterback Club San Francisco Rush Genesis - .75 ea. Sonic Road Rash II King's Bounty Coleco Gemini + foam, Y adapter, warranty, 4x games - $2 Genesis 2 system boxed - $2 NES Power Pad boxed - $1 N64 Wireless Controllers - $1.50 The Residents - Gingerbread Man multimedia CD (good thing I found that iMac for $15!)

Okay - some more Genesis finds for a buck a throw... Game Genie + book + 4x code update books Vector Man 2 Earthworm Jim 2 Might And Magic Tiny TOons - Buster's Hidden Treasure Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion Shining In The Darkness Dungeons & Dragons - Warriors of the Eternal Sun Toejam & Earl (can't beleive that I've never found this before...) Landstalker Sword of Vermillion Taz - Escape from Mars Zombies Ate My Neighbors Quackshot The Lost Vikings Also got a sweet early boom box - a Sony CFD-5 for $5. Heavy as hell - you'd dislocate your shoulder carrying this down to the park for breakdancing.

can you really count things that were forgotten about in your own home as recent finds? Well, you'd have to see the kind of garage we're talking about! Actually it was my parent's garage, so this means that I tucked away this stuff more than ten years ago. I wouldn't have had a chance to list those items here that long ago.

Great to hear that the used PS2's are out there! I've seen one or two at thrifts, but they were in bad shape. Anyway there were a couple of exceptional finds this weekend: boxed Intellivoice - $1 Coleco console + controllers, super action controllers, 2600 adapter, 2 games - $5 Sony 5 DVD changer (with SACD & digital out) - $5 COmmodore PET + FLoppy Drive - garbage picked years ago, in storage in my garage and forgotten Tomy handheld non electronic game - found years ago, re-found recently - .50 2 dozen board games from the 60's-80's - $10 Altec 872B massive cubic speakers from 1970's - $15 Cambridge Soundworks passive woofers - $10

I follow the efforts of the guys who use old grey Game Boys for making music. One of the hot topics in those chat groups has always been the modding of the Game Boy to include lighting, but I don't think that there have been a lot of super successes. I think that the side-lighting thing that you mention is the one that's worked the best. I do still have a kit for Game Boy Advance that allowed modding it for a backlight, but by the time I got up the nerve to try, the GBA SP came out. Good luck!

Unexpected finds at a thrift that never has games - these are the salad days of Playstation collecting my friends... PSX You don't know Jack - $2 Toy Story 2 NIB - $1 Playstation Underground CD Mag - $2 Dreamcast Alienfront Online - $1 Starlancer - $1 Toy Commander - $2 2600 Breakout in box! - $1 Video Olympics in box, with extra sleeve with hangtag - $1 Also scored a nice Technics SL-Q303 turntable that is unused. Still need to sniff around to learn about it, but it looks really nice - especially for $25. Gotta bust out my Pac-Man Fever record.

I try to hit the thrifts once a week - on the day that they change the colored tags so that new stuff is suddenly half-off. There is place right by me that does everything half off on Mondays which is the only thing that'll get me out of bed early on a Monday.

Man, that Godzilla at the top of the page brings back a lot of memories. It's one of the "biggest" I ever won at the hangout arcade Haunted Trails in the Chicago suburbs. Man, I played a LOT of Space Harrier there... Let me also echo how desperately I want to find TG-16 games in the wild. In 15 years of thrifting I think that I've found as many TG consoles as games, and that's two each. I guess that I'll just have to content myself with cheap NES PSX games at a buck each... NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TMNT II Arcade BreakThru PSX Reel Fishing (I may actually have the PS fishing controller somewhere...) Monopoly Resident Evil 3 The Next Tetris Crosley portable turntable (first plat I played was Pac Man Fever of course...) $10 Lego Tie Fighter - minifig scale - .30 Speaker stands - $4 In an awesome score, I found a Denon AVR-2802 amp. It's my first stereo amp with Surround built in, turntablew amp (yay!), digital inputs, even a component video switcher (too hook up a couple of component sources to your TV), so it's clearly meant to be the center of an AV system (if I ever get a gaming room, this is going to run the show!). Their site says that this is second from the top of the line from a few years ago when this thing cost $700. I paid $20. Man, who are these people who ditch expensive gear so soon? It's been amp week around here, I got a Yamaha EMX 66M amp. It's not really a home stereo thing, more of a PA system for a band or club. It looks like it was never used and has 600 watts of wallpaper peeling beef, and it came in at $35. The thing is worth $300 easily. It would be so cool to use this outdoors with my video projector for playing garage-sized Warlords. Now I have to decide whether I'm getting my band back together or flipping the thing on Ebay.

Hit some Wisconsin thrifts over the weekend along with my usual Chicago haunts: NES Mission Impossible (orig series) - $1.50 NES Blades of Steel + box - $1.50 NES Batman - $1 NES Baseball Simulator - $1 32X Shadow Squadron - $1 32X Kolibri - $1.99 (been looking for this for ages!) N64 Lode Runner 3D - $2 N64 Robotron 64 - $2 PS Dragonball Z fighting stick - $2.50 PS PO'ed - $1 PS Project Overkill - $1.50 PS Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas (sealed) - $1.50

hey Trooper - nice scores! Ya gotta tell us, was that DC dev system an Ebay buy? I'll go crazy if you found that at a thrift.

What did all that great schwag set you back?

Today my street is having yard sales all over. LOTS of great deals on stuff, but I wasn't expecting to get any gaming stuff: 2x PS2 thick foam dance pads for DDR - $10 NES lot - console (intermittent - don't care, I'm playing these on the NEX), controllers, zapper gun, radio shack PSU Bubble Bobble Tetris 2x (one with docs) Joust 2x Millipede Mappyland Bomberman + docs Donkey Kong Classics Golf Skate or Die (my C64 friends are going to kill me...) Gyruss Dr. Mario Rainbow Island Super Mario 3 Dungeon Magic Burgertime Pro Wrestling 720 Lolo Wall Street Kid the whole pile was $5! Now that's what I'm talking about... GB Metroid II - $1 GBC Donkey Kong Country - $1 N64 Mischief Makers - $3 PS2 Clubworld music making program - $2 GC Paper Mario - $8 and just for fun... 4 foot tall mini jukebox plays CD's - $15 old tin toy stoves - $5 1960's video test signal generator - $15 nonfunctioning laptop - free in the alley.

Sweet score on the Odyssey. I've got one in the original box, and one int he travel case, and the rifle... but the mail order games are an awesome rarity! Was this a thrift find, or an Ebay win? I'm just curious because I'd really lik top get all of those mail order games too someday, it's just that it's always been expensive. COngrats!

Couple things: NES Bible Adventures - $1 Trick Shooting - $1 Wrestlemania $1 PS2 controller, blue - $1 GC controller, blk - $1 psone unit (no AC cord or video hookup) - $8 Space Invaders plug & play (sealed) - $4 On two weeks this is my third PSone that I've found for under $10. I wonder where they're all coming from all of a sudden?

Banner day at the thrift. Mostly Playstation, but that's kind of cool as Iv'e been playing it a bunch lately. I have one of those arcade cabinet kits that uses a game console, and I've got Playstation in there. A lot of the games I've got are pretty fun (though many do not lend themselves to the stand-up arcade experience), and the games that came at the end of the PS1's life are pretty amazing graphically. Playstation PSone unit + component cable: $7.50 Duo analog flight sticks: $3 = PS games, all $2 Miss Spider's Tea Party Tony Hawk 2 Spongebob Squarepants Rainbow Six Army Men 3D Motocross Mania Syphon Filter Medal Of Honor Underground Star Wars jedi Power Battles Spec Ops Ranger Elite = SNES Kablooey: $1.25 = Xbox Sims Bustin' Out: $2.50 = 15" high sparkly new looking Waco Jackpot Machine: $10

You kind of pegged it with the FC Twin - while really cool (and I've been finding a LOT of SNES carts lately at the thrift), you won't be able to use original NES controllers. I've always been happy with the Yobo - it's pretty well built, and I think it's kind of cute because it's so tiny. The red and while also reminds me of a classic Famicom. You mention the Yobo allowing you to play Fami carts. Mine doesn't - it's US NES only, but the foreign ones are Famicom only (you need an adapter to play the US games). Not sure the one you've got. I've got the Poly unit that you mention. It's made of really chintzy plastic and won't survive much play - besides, you can't plug in standard NES stuff into it. The one that I play these days is the Messiah NEX. I know that people have complained about compatibility stuff, it doesn't seem to be any worse than any other Famiclone. The NEX is built better (really slick classy design!), and the wireless controllers are awesome. They've also got a really nice wireless arcade stick that you can get. Add to that famicom + NES slot and I think it's a winner. If you want to read a few reviews of these guys on my website, here are some links: YOBO review FC Twin more detailed review Messiah wireless controllers

Nice bunch of goodies today: - NES console plus third party joystick controllers that look pretty flakey - $3 (all carts were $1.50) TMNT II arcade Mach Rider Tecmo Baseball Fighting Golf Rambo Silent Service Adventures of Link Blaster Master Section Z Iron Sword Legacy of the Wizard Marble Madness - Genesis Super Monaco - CIB $1.50 Super Hang-On - CIB $2 Cyberball - CIB $2 Fatal Fury $1.25 Classic Game Boy in GB shaped case in awesome shape - $6 r2d2 under the dome DVD - $1 thank you for smoking DVD - $1 MiniDisc player - $5 the longest most intense boombox I've ever seen $7 K'nex roller coaster kit - $5 (even as an adult, I'm dying to build this!) "professional" xylophone - $8 (had to throw that in!)

You couldn't possibly have found a puck bowling set? What is this?

Genesis - carts only - $1.00 each Tiny Toons - Buster's Hidden Treasure Hard Drivin' Ms. Pac-Man (supposedly one of the best ports?) Earthworm Jim Spiderman/X-men Arcade's Revenge

Hey there Atariboy, nice job! Breathtaking in fact. I even linked to this discussion in my blog!

It's a bit high, but I'd have jumped on that Saturn. I think that I've only ever seen 4 Saturns in the wild, three of which I picked up (one was some kind of insane cash, and one is sorta broken...). There are some swell Saturn games out there. I've been playing Playstation lately (I just got a pile of cheap games recently - never played the system when it was out), and I seem to recall the Saturn's graphics being a little bit better? Then again, some of the last Playstation games were looking pretty good.

Is that thing made by a company in Waco (or perhaps called Waco)? I have a couple of Waco machines that kind of resemble that device. They're kind of neat old games - very interesting stuff going on inside.

NES games at $1.50 each Double Dragon (can't believe that I didn't have this one yet) Pro Wrestling Mickey Mousecapade The Little Mermaid Jackal Trojan Friday the 13th Sesame Street Letter Go Round Track & Field II Wizards & Warriors Early Playstation unit with RF connector - $5